Get beyond the idealized concept drawings and understand how the basic concepts of smart growth impact your public works operations.

Is development in your community growing faster than the infrastructure to support it?

Do you know what factors are behind the smart growth movement?

Is your infrastructure ready to handle new development in older established areas of town?

Are your transportations systems ready for mixed land use development?

It is imperative that you get a seat at the decision tables along with community planners. It is also imperative that you have the facts. Tune in and hear the balanced perspective!

Speaker:

Colonel David Zelenok

Director of Public Works and Transportation, City of Colorado Springs, CO (1990 -2003)

Currently serving on Active Duty with the US Air Force Reserves at Schriever AFB

Dave Zelenok has held a number of executive positions with the City of Colorado Springs, where he served as Director of Public Works and Director of Transportation from 1990 to 2003. In those capacities, he oversaw the Colorado Springs Airport, City Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Street Maintenance, Mass Transit, and the Pikes Peak Highway. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the US Air Force Academy and a Masters Degree in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and is registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Concurrent with his responsibilities in local government, he has served as a member of the US Air Force Reserves in a variety of command, staff and engineering positions. In April 2003, he was called to Active Duty at Schriever AFB, Colorado where he has served as Vice Wing Commander and Director of Staff. In those positions, he has overseen the operation of most of the nation's military satellites, including the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation, providing precision navigation to users worldwide, as well as various communications, weather and defense satellite systems and their supporting network of ground stations and terrestrial facilities.

Speaker:

Brian Bochner

Brian Bochner, P.E., P.T.O.E., Senior Research Engineer, Texas Transportation Institute, has over 30 years of transportation planning and traffic engineering experience, including roadway, traffic engineering, and transit design for urban roadways in commercial developments and new communities. He has developed street design guidelines for major developments, new communities. He has also developed plans for pedestrian facilities and pedestrian system upgrades.

Mr. Bochner participated as a member of ITE task forces that produced the Institute’s proposed recommended practices on local street design guidelines and smart growth transportation planning. He chairs ITE’s Smart Growth Task Force.

Speaker:

David Cooper

Senior Project Manager-Planning & Urban Design Group, URS Corporation

Mr. Cooper has more than 22 years of experience on large-scale planning and infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally. He joined URS in 1999, after 15 years with another large planning and engineering consulting firm. Mr. Cooper’s recent work has focused on the planning and implementation of complex development projects for public and private clients. This includes mixed-use and redevelopment projects ranging in size from several acres to several thousand acres, (such as the 4,500 acre Stapleton redevelopment project in Denver), land use and transportation studies and redevelopment of former military facilities in the United States and in Panama. He is currently the program manager for land use services for the City of Centennial, a new community of 100,000 for which URS is providing turn-key current and long-range development services.